Genesis 3:15-17

New Century Version

¹⁵I will make you and the woman
    enemies to each other.
Your descendants and her descendants
    will be enemies.
One of her descendants will crush your head,
    and you will bite his heel.”

¹⁶Then God said to the woman,

“I will cause you to have much trouble
    when you are pregnant,
and when you give birth to children,
    you will have great pain.
You will greatly desire your husband,
    but he will rule over you.”

¹⁷Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat.

“So I will put a curse on the ground,
and you will have to work very hard for your food.
In pain you will eat its food
all the days of your life.

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Genesis 3:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[a]^(A) and hers;^(B)
he will crush^[b] your head,^(C)
    and you will strike his heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(D)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.^(E)”

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(F)

“Cursed^(G) is the ground^(H) because of you;
through painful toil^(I) you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.^(J)